Recent content by Altaman

Being that you can now buy a HD receiver and add an external drive to get PVR functionality, what do you think are the chances of Dish removing the hard coding of internal drives? The biggest problem I see with hard coding is that if a drive goes bad you have to send it back for a refurb...Me I...

Maybe I missed something out of all these pages, but can a person us a DPP-Twin LNB with the 500+? Have all this technology I use and it seems I end up with more & more LNB's (Legacy & DP). I mainly want the 500+ for the bigger size to reduce rainfade...Anyways inquiring minds want to know. Alt

Here is a link to format the 9200 (942 equiv) that may/should work! http://www.digitalhomecanada.com/forum/showpost.php?p=297242&postcount=11 Alt

Can some kind sould advise on how to format the HDD in the 042? I knew how to do it some time ago, but old age is catching up ;) Alt

If this is going to work the way I think it is the idea is 1/2 baked! First off you will copy your show(s) to the USB drive, now a week later you want to watch it. You now have to copy the show(s) back to the internal drive to watch. What if the internal drive is full? Why not allow a person...

Just for a little clarification here, while component outputs can easily handle 720p/1080i you are NEVER going to see this from the big name companies. A prime example are current upconverting DVD players, they only officially support upconverting over HDMI, component is 480 only (there are...

Funny I knew who the moderator was before I even checked it out ;) For some reason I never like it when he posts, seems he posts just for the sake of of it and to defend virtually everything Dish does. Now if he had read the post he quoted, you were not saying 720p was acceptable, but was the...

A little late, but have you tried doing a check switch? Alt

Well according to homestand it seems he has moved drives between two machines. You can read it here, it is post #31. http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=6157361&&#post6157361 I personally have not tried it and won't until the proper cables/connectors get to me. Alt

Actually while I can't take the credit for the info, the information on what drives are in the firmware was originally supplied by the dishmod group on yahoo and I stumbed onto the info in the avsforum's. It is like pulling teeth finding the exact WD model # drive, however the Maxtor 7Y250M0...

Well I will tell you that my 9200 did that (sorta stuttering on fast moving scenes) and a bit later I got the infamous "0551-serious hard drive problem". Good luck! Alt

Well yesterday my 9200 (942 for the U.S. version) had the hard drive die in it after about 3 months and I have read of others who have gotten the dreaded 0551 error. I record over 20 events per week and lost quite a few shows I had not watched, not to mention having to setup timers, etc once the...

No the power inserter does not get installed at every receiver, it gets installed on port #1 of the DPP44 at the receiver side. Alt

Buy all my stuff from www.dishstore.net and they have always been good to me! Alt

Here is the thread on avsforum, I just passed along the info: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=550668 Alt